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** The Ministry deliberately terminated Violet's pregnancy. She doesn't know this. [[AllThereInTheManual Neither does the audience.]]
** It's a blink-and-you-won't-hear-it moment on the soundtrack--when she escapes with the "package", a voice identifies her as "a plague victim whose pregnancy was forcibly terminated…"
** It's a blink-and-you-won't-hear-it moment on the soundtrack--when she escapes with the "package", a voice identifies her as "a plague victim whose pregnancy was forcibly terminated…"
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** The Ministry deliberately terminated Violet's pregnancy. She doesn't know this. [[AllThereInTheManual Neither does the audience.]]
**It's a blink-and-you-won't-hear-it moment on the soundtrack--when she escapes with the "package", a voice identifies her as "a plague victim whose pregnancy was forcibly terminated…"
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* {{Anvilicious}}: The awfulness in the systematic discrimination and rounding up of the hemophages is hammered on in one particular scene where a family of hemophages is seen dressed up as Hasidic Jews, complete with biohazard patches.
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* {{Anvilicious}}: The awfulness in of the systematic systemic discrimination and rounding up of the hemophages is hammered on in one particular scene where a family of hemophages is seen dressed up as Hasidic Jews, complete with biohazard patches.
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** Daxus gets an EvilIsCool moment, when he takes out the top-level hemophage soldiers, [[MustHaveCaffeine without spilling a drop of his filled-to-the brim cup of joe.]]
** The Library fight. Violet takes out a hundred mooks with her Gun-swords.
** The Library fight. Violet takes out a hundred mooks with her Gun-swords.
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** Daxus gets an EvilIsCool moment, moment when he takes out the top-level hemophage soldiers, [[MustHaveCaffeine without spilling a drop of his filled-to-the brim cup of joe.]]
** TheLibrary library fight. Violet takes out a hundred mooks with her Gun-swords.gun-swords.
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* BetterOnDVD: A bit, at least. The unrated version of the film reincorporates nine minutes of cut footage that flesh out the backstory of the hemophages and the character of Violet.
* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: The Blood Chinois. They are a random Asian gang that randomly appear in the movie, have no apparent motive and backstory besides "You're in our territory", set up a ridiculous action scene, and they are mentioned precisely once later when Nerva's goons try to intimidate Violet by reminding her they aren't Blood Chinois, as if we knew enough about them to use them as a gauge of strength.
* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: The Blood Chinois. They are a random Asian gang that randomly appear in the movie, have no apparent motive and backstory besides "You're in our territory", set up a ridiculous action scene, and they are mentioned precisely once later when Nerva's goons try to intimidate Violet by reminding her they aren't Blood Chinois, as if we knew enough about them to use them as a gauge of strength.
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* BetterOnDVD: A bit, at least. The unrated version of the film reincorporates nine minutes of cut footage that flesh out the backstory of the hemophages and the character of Violet.
Violet's character.
* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: The Blood Chinois. They are a random Asian gang that randomly appear in the movie, have no apparent motive and backstory besides "You're in our territory", set up a ridiculous action scene, andthey are mentioned precisely once later when Nerva's goons try to intimidate Violet by reminding her they aren't Blood Chinois, as if we knew enough about them to use them as a gauge of strength.
* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: The Blood Chinois. They are a random Asian gang that randomly appear in the movie, have no apparent motive and backstory besides "You're in our territory", set up a ridiculous action scene, and
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* CriticalBacklash: The film was trashed by critics and audiences alike and you will hardly find someone who calls it good, but there are people who believe it to be more entertaining than it is often credited as, at least as a GuiltyPleasure or a comic book-esque fountain of NarmCharm. The fact that ExecutiveMeddling released the film literally unfinished and killed the career of a relatively promising action director also attracts some points of sympathy.
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* CriticalBacklash: The film was trashed by critics and audiences alike and you will hardly find someone who calls it good, but there are people who believe it to be more entertaining than it is often credited as, at least as a GuiltyPleasure or a comic book-esque fountain of NarmCharm. The fact that ExecutiveMeddling released the film literally unfinished and killed the career of a relatively promising action director also attracts some points of sympathy.
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* FridgeHorror: Six is said, by Daxus, to be "Number Six in a set of Eight" clones. So where are Numbers 7 and 8? Were they killed when Violet blew up the Archministry at the end of the film?
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* FridgeHorror: Six is said, by Daxus, to be "Number Six in a set of Eight" eight" clones. So where are Numbers 7 and 8? Were they killed when Violet blew up the Archministry at the end of the film?
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* NarmCharm: Both the film's high and lows (if pretentiousness of style and plot can be called high) can make it a rather fun flick. Hilariously, the official anime's opening song is named "GuiltyPleasure" of all things.
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* NarmCharm: Both the film's high highs and lows (if pretentiousness of style and plot can be called high) can make it a rather fun flick. Hilariously, the official anime's opening song is named "GuiltyPleasure" of all things."GuiltyPleasure".
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* BestKnownForTheFanservice: The strip search, featuring a totally nude Milla Jokovich. There's even ''porno music'' for crying out loud!
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* BestKnownForTheFanservice: The strip search, featuring a totally nude Milla Jokovich.Creator/MillaJovovich. There's even ''porno music'' for crying out loud!
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* FauxSymbolism: The prologue shows hemophage victims [[YouHaveToHaveJews wearing black hats and clothing]], being harassed by skinheads, and herded into camps. This sequence serves no narrative purpose and is never referenced again. Presumably because after the opening sequence, almost all the hemophages were executed. As Violet herself says, "The ones that survived… started fighting back."
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* FauxSymbolism: The prologue shows hemophage victims [[YouHaveToHaveJews wearing black hats and clothing]], clothing, being harassed by skinheads, and herded into camps. This sequence serves no narrative purpose and is never referenced again. Presumably because after the opening sequence, almost all the hemophages were executed. As Violet herself says, "The ones that survived… started fighting back."
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** Daxus gets an EvilIsCool moment, when he takes out the top-level hemophage soldiers, [[MustHaveCaffeine without spilling a drop of his filled-to-the brim cup of joe.]]
** The Library fight. Violet takes out a hundred mooks with her Gun-swords.
** Daxus gets an EvilIsCool moment, when he takes out the top-level hemophage soldiers, [[MustHaveCaffeine without spilling a drop of his filled-to-the brim cup of joe.]]
** The Library fight. Violet takes out a hundred mooks with her Gun-swords.
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* FridgeHorror: Six is said, by Daxus, to be "Number Six in a set of Eight" clones. So where are Numbers 7 and 8? Were they killed when Violet blew up the Archministry at the end of the film?
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* {{Anvilicious}}: The awfulness in the systematic discrimination and rounding up of the hemophages is hammered on in one particular scene where a family of hemophages is seen dressed up as Hasidic Jews, complete with biohazard patches.
* BestKnownForTheFanservice: The strip search, featuring a totally nude Milla Jokovich. There's even ''porno music'' for crying out loud!
* BetterOnDVD: A bit, at least. The unrated version of the film reincorporates nine minutes of cut footage that flesh out the backstory of the hemophages and the character of Violet.
* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: The Blood Chinois. They are a random Asian gang that randomly appear in the movie, have no apparent motive and backstory besides "You're in our territory", set up a ridiculous action scene, and they are mentioned precisely once later when Nerva's goons try to intimidate Violet by reminding her they aren't Blood Chinois, as if we knew enough about them to use them as a gauge of strength.
* CompleteMonster: [[KnightTemplar Vice Cardinal Ferdinand Daxus]], ruthless [[BigBad leader]] of the Arch-Ministry government, initially created the virus that led to the birth of the [[OurVampiresAreDifferent hemophages]]. Daxus initiates a purge of Hemophages, wiping them out to nearly the final few members of the species after subjecting many of them to horrible experiments. Cloning himself constantly, Daxus experiments with the clones to [[PoisonAndCureGambit find a way to create a new plague]] to use on humans since with the hemophages almost gone, he fears his authority will slip away. Planning on dissecting his latest clone Six, Daxus [[StrawHypocrite reveals himself as a hemophage]] by the movie's end, willing to destroy whatever he has to, [[BoomerangBigot even his own kind]], in order to keep his grip on power.
* CriticalBacklash: The film was trashed by critics and audiences alike and you will hardly find someone who calls it good, but there are people who believe it to be more entertaining than it is often credited as, at least as a GuiltyPleasure or a comic book-esque fountain of NarmCharm. The fact that ExecutiveMeddling released the film literally unfinished and killed the career of a relatively promising action director also attracts some points of sympathy.
* FauxSymbolism: The prologue shows hemophage victims [[YouHaveToHaveJews wearing black hats and clothing]], being harassed by skinheads, and herded into camps. This sequence serves no narrative purpose and is never referenced again. Presumably because after the opening sequence, almost all the hemophages were executed. As Violet herself says, "The ones that survived… started fighting back."
* FightSceneFailure:
** Whilst StormingTheCastle, Violet faces one room full of {{Mook}}s in pure-white NBC gear, which just makes the BloodlessCarnage all the more blatant. Combined with relatively tame choreography, this fight is a particular low point in the film.
** The duel between Violet and Daxus has its problems, too. The ''idea'' is awesome -- a SwordFight in total darkness, lit only by the fact that [[FlamingSword the swords are on fire]] -- but because they actually filmed it straight, ''without'' employing HollywoodDarkness, you can't make much sense of what's going on.
** The final fight with The Blood Chinois is one, too. It's more or less the same shot over and over.
* GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff: The film did well enough in Japan to receive its own anime, ''Ultraviolet: Code 044'', by Creator/{{Madhouse}} of all studios.
* JustHereForGodzilla: Milla herself is the reason many caught the movie.
* MoralEventHorizon:
** The Ministry deliberately terminated Violet's pregnancy. She doesn't know this. [[AllThereInTheManual Neither does the audience.]]
** It's a blink-and-you-won't-hear-it moment on the soundtrack--when she escapes with the "package", a voice identifies her as "a plague victim whose pregnancy was forcibly terminated…"
* {{Narm}}: The flaming sword scene ends with a goddamn ''squirt gun'' being brought in.
* NarmCharm: Both the film's high and lows (if pretentiousness of style and plot can be called high) can make it a rather fun flick. Hilariously, the official anime's opening song is named "GuiltyPleasure" of all things.
* SpecialEffectsFailure: The film's extensive visual effects were never completed as intended due to {{Executive Meddling}}, and it SHOWS. Several scenes, including the infamous motorcycle chase, use incomplete temp-renders that were never meant to be seen outside of the editing room.
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* BestKnownForTheFanservice: The strip search, featuring a totally nude Milla Jokovich. There's even ''porno music'' for crying out loud!
* BetterOnDVD: A bit, at least. The unrated version of the film reincorporates nine minutes of cut footage that flesh out the backstory of the hemophages and the character of Violet.
* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: The Blood Chinois. They are a random Asian gang that randomly appear in the movie, have no apparent motive and backstory besides "You're in our territory", set up a ridiculous action scene, and they are mentioned precisely once later when Nerva's goons try to intimidate Violet by reminding her they aren't Blood Chinois, as if we knew enough about them to use them as a gauge of strength.
* CompleteMonster: [[KnightTemplar Vice Cardinal Ferdinand Daxus]], ruthless [[BigBad leader]] of the Arch-Ministry government, initially created the virus that led to the birth of the [[OurVampiresAreDifferent hemophages]]. Daxus initiates a purge of Hemophages, wiping them out to nearly the final few members of the species after subjecting many of them to horrible experiments. Cloning himself constantly, Daxus experiments with the clones to [[PoisonAndCureGambit find a way to create a new plague]] to use on humans since with the hemophages almost gone, he fears his authority will slip away. Planning on dissecting his latest clone Six, Daxus [[StrawHypocrite reveals himself as a hemophage]] by the movie's end, willing to destroy whatever he has to, [[BoomerangBigot even his own kind]], in order to keep his grip on power.
* CriticalBacklash: The film was trashed by critics and audiences alike and you will hardly find someone who calls it good, but there are people who believe it to be more entertaining than it is often credited as, at least as a GuiltyPleasure or a comic book-esque fountain of NarmCharm. The fact that ExecutiveMeddling released the film literally unfinished and killed the career of a relatively promising action director also attracts some points of sympathy.
* FauxSymbolism: The prologue shows hemophage victims [[YouHaveToHaveJews wearing black hats and clothing]], being harassed by skinheads, and herded into camps. This sequence serves no narrative purpose and is never referenced again. Presumably because after the opening sequence, almost all the hemophages were executed. As Violet herself says, "The ones that survived… started fighting back."
* FightSceneFailure:
** Whilst StormingTheCastle, Violet faces one room full of {{Mook}}s in pure-white NBC gear, which just makes the BloodlessCarnage all the more blatant. Combined with relatively tame choreography, this fight is a particular low point in the film.
** The duel between Violet and Daxus has its problems, too. The ''idea'' is awesome -- a SwordFight in total darkness, lit only by the fact that [[FlamingSword the swords are on fire]] -- but because they actually filmed it straight, ''without'' employing HollywoodDarkness, you can't make much sense of what's going on.
** The final fight with The Blood Chinois is one, too. It's more or less the same shot over and over.
* GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff: The film did well enough in Japan to receive its own anime, ''Ultraviolet: Code 044'', by Creator/{{Madhouse}} of all studios.
* JustHereForGodzilla: Milla herself is the reason many caught the movie.
* MoralEventHorizon:
** The Ministry deliberately terminated Violet's pregnancy. She doesn't know this. [[AllThereInTheManual Neither does the audience.]]
** It's a blink-and-you-won't-hear-it moment on the soundtrack--when she escapes with the "package", a voice identifies her as "a plague victim whose pregnancy was forcibly terminated…"
* {{Narm}}: The flaming sword scene ends with a goddamn ''squirt gun'' being brought in.
* NarmCharm: Both the film's high and lows (if pretentiousness of style and plot can be called high) can make it a rather fun flick. Hilariously, the official anime's opening song is named "GuiltyPleasure" of all things.
* SpecialEffectsFailure: The film's extensive visual effects were never completed as intended due to {{Executive Meddling}}, and it SHOWS. Several scenes, including the infamous motorcycle chase, use incomplete temp-renders that were never meant to be seen outside of the editing room.
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